Ngarla language

Ngarla
Native toPort Hedland area of Western Australia
EthnicityNgarla
ExtinctCritically endangered[1][2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nrk
Glottologngar1296
AIATSIS[3]A79
ELPNgarla
Ngarla is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Ngarla is a Pama–Nyungan language of coastal Western Australia. It is possibly mutually intelligible with Panyjima and Martuthunira, but the three are considered distinct languages.

Ngarla is a member of the Ngayarda branch of the Pama–Nyungan languages. Dench (1995) believed there was insufficient data to enable it to be confidently classified, but Bowern & Koch (2004) include it without proviso.

Ngarla is spoken near Port Hedland. The "Ngarla" on the Ashburton River is a dialect of a different, though possibly related, language, Yinhawangka.

According to the Irra Wangga Language Centre, "Ngarla is no longer spoken today, although there remain some community members who know some words and phrases in the language".[5]

  1. ^ Austlang: W40: Ngarla
  2. ^ UNESCO Languages Atlas
  3. ^ A79 Ngarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 56.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference irra was invoked but never defined (see the help page).